SENATE KILLS MOVE TO LIMIT RIGHTS BILL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) — The Senate voted 59 to 16 today against excluding 10.1 million state and local government employes from Federal protection against job discrimination.

The vote killed an attempt by Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., Democrat of North Carolina, to remove the state and local government workers from the proposed legislation.

The bill also give the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the power to issue cease‐and‐desist orders to halt job discrimination practices in private business. In cases involving state and local government workers, however, the commission have to ask the Justice Department to bring suit in Federal court.

Senator Ervin and other Southerners tried to have the court procedure used for enforcement against private business, but the Senate narrowly voted that down last week.

With those two losses behind them, Southern Senators resorted to the filibuster; a vote is set for 12:30 P.M. tomorrow on a motion to cut off debate by invoking closure.

This requires a two‐thirds majority and, because there was little likelihood of mustering this much support for closure on the first vote, a second closure motion will come up for debate an hour after the Senate convenes on Wednesday.

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